Washington, Dec 3 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistan is not responsible for last week's Mumbai attacks.

""The state of Pakistan is in no way responsible. Even the White House and the American CIA have said that today. We're part of the victims. I'm a victim. The state of Pakistan is a victim. We are the victims of this war. I am sorry for the Indians," The News quoted Zardari telling US talk show host Larry King.

He also said that the arrested person does not have Pakistani nationality and it was wrong to put the blame on Pakistan.

Indian officials have publicly blamed Pakistani militants for the attacks, and called on Pakistan to hand over a group of wanted militant leaders suspected of plotting them.

"I think these are stateless actors who have been operating all throughout the region," he added.

He confirmed he is willing to have Pakistani security officials participate with India in a joint investigation.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has already proposed a joint investigation into the attacks. (ANI)

London, Dec 3 (ANI): Uganda's police warned men of a 'booby trap' after a probe found that a gang of robbers had been using women with chloroform smeared on their chests to knock their victims unconscious.

Police officers have discovered victims of the attacks naked with all their possessions stolen by the gang, who use the women to lure their prey and rob them when they fall unconscious after intimate activity.

Fred Enanga, a spokesman for the country's Criminal Investigations Directorate, has warned all men, and particularly travelling businessmen who tend to carry more cash than locals.

"It's a serious situation and people have to be aware," the Telegraph quoted him, as saying.

"They apply this chemical to their chest. We have found victims in an unconscious state.

"You find the person stripped totally naked and everything is taken from him. And the victim doesn't remember anything. He just remembers being in the act of romancing," he added.

Enanga added that the police had first came across the practice last year, when they apprehended a thief called Juliana Mukasa, whom he described as "a very dangerous lady." (ANI)

Mumbai, Dec.3 (ANI): American intelligence officials have agreed with their Indian counterparts that Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Yusuf Muzammil is the focus of their attention in connection with the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last week.

Muzammil, a Pakistani in his mid-30s, is the head of the Lashkar-e-Toiba's anti-Indian planning cell.

Though they stopped short of calling him the mastermind, a counter-terrorism official said: "That is a name that is definitely on the radar screen."

Information gathered in the probe also continues to point to a Lashkar-e-Toiba connection, he added.

"There's very little doubt that the LeT is responsible, but beyond that we need to learn more," said a senior American official, who was briefed on the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity, citing its continuing nature.

Along with a confession from the one gunman captured in the attacks, U.S. officials cited phone calls intercepted by satellite during the attacks that connected the assailants to the Lashkar-e-Toiba in Pakistan.

India has accused Muzammil of orchestrating last week's terror attacks and demanded that the Pakistan Government turn him over and take action against the LeT.

Indian officials claim that just two days before hitting Mumbai, the terrorists communicated with Muzammil and four other Lashkar leaders via a satellite phone that they left behind on a fishing trawler they hijacked to get to Mumbai.

A senior Mumbai police official told The Wall Street Journal that the entire group also underwent rigorous training at a Lashkar-e-Toiba camp in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir.

He said that Muzammil had earlier been in touch with an Indian Muslim extremist who scoped out Mumbai locations for possible attack before he was arrested early this year.

The Indian man, Faheem Ahmed Ansari, had in his possession layouts drawn up for the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel and Mumbai's main railway station, both prime targets of last week's attack, the police official said.

Ansari, who also made sketches and maps of other locations in southern Mumbai that weren't attacked, had met Muzammil and trained at the same Lashkar camp as the terrorists in last week's attack, an official said.

The evidence cited by investigators is giving fresh ammunition to the Indian government, which has long tried to pressure Pakistan into cracking down on Lashkar-e-Toiba.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are expected to issue stern warnings to the Government of Pakistan to crack down on militant groups in Pakistan. (ANI)

Melbourne, Dec 3 (ANI): If, by any chance, you've socks, jocks and blenders in your list of Christmas gifts, then it's time that you cross them off, for they are among the most hated festival gifts this year, at least that's what a new Oz survey suggests.

The survey conducted by Galaxy Research revealed that the above items along with books, underwear and dressing gowns, made up for the most unpopular but widely received of all Christmas gifts.

In fact, 56 per cent of people said that they would re-gift many of such items throughout the next year.

In October, Galaxy questioned 1242 people aged 13 years and older on behalf of NAB.

And it was found that there was significant disparity between how people perceive their gift giving prowess and the reality.

Despite 69 per cent of Australians rating their present buying ability as above average in the survey, almost 72 per cent of people regularly receive a Christmas gift they don't like.

Grandparents scored the lowest when it comes to giving gifts-they were rated as the worst gift givers (37 per cent), with mums taking second spot (20 per cent) and dads third (14 per cent), reports theage.com.au.

Clothes bought by parents topped the unwanted gift list for teenage girls-over 50 per cent were unhappy about receiving them as gifts. However, 70 per cent of parents rated clothes as a good purchase for daughters.

On the other hand, for teenage boys, books got the big thumbs down.

Kitchen appliances make up for the most re-gifted item for women and were also the type of gift women would least like to receive from their partner.

But, almost one-third of blokes were still planning to but kitchen utility for their partners.

A list of popular gift ideas from David Jones has the Chanel No 5 Eau Premiere perfume as the top gift for women and an iPod Nano as the male equivalent.

For boys, Lego and Transformers products are suggested, and for girls, Barbie and Baby Alive.

Kmart's top ten toys for Christmas include the Ben 10 Alien Force - Ultimate Omnitrix, a Star Wars Clone Wars vehicle and the Lego city coast guard platform for boys.

For girls there's a cupcake maker, Barbie princess doll and My Little Pony sing and dance horse. (ANI)